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ruptured intestines, strangulation, intro-susception, impactment, and cal- 
culus. 
Ruptured diaphragm is attended with a soft cough, and symptoms 
of broken wind—occasioned by the almost sole employment of the 
abdominal muscles—with sitting on the haunches. Still, Professor 
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AN UNNATURAL ATTITUDE, INDICATIVE OF SOME ABDOMINAL INJURY. 
Spooner, of the Royal Veterinary College, mentioned in his lectures 
that an animal belonging to the Zoological Society lived two years 
with a ruptured diaphragm, through which the bowel protruded into 
the thorax. In the horse such a lesion is speedily fatal. 
A position so unnatural as that of sitting on the haunches may 
A POSITION OFTEN ASSUMED BY THE HORSE SUFFERING FROM ABDOMINAL INJURY. 
denote something very wrong to be present; but it gives no definite 
direction to our ideas. Animals are known to have assumed it, and 
